Crystal River current., 1887-05-21
TELEGRAPH BREVlTLES.


The trial of Jake Sharp, the boss
New York boodler has commenced in New
York.
Switzerland has ratified the literary
copyright convention with the United
States.
A heavy snow storm almost stopped
travel on the Union Pacific between Chey-
enne and Ogden.
The will of the late Alex. Mitchell of
Milwaukee makes many liberal requests to
charitable institutions.
A dispatch from Rome says DIR. Nc
Giynn has again informed the Vatican that
he refuses to go to Rome.
Natural gas has been struck in Otta-
wa. Kansas, at depth of five hundred feet.
The pressure was too strong for measure
ment
Emanuel De Freitas, II years old,
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge safely,
and was sent to prison for three months for
doing it.
The Dominion alliance has decided
that bill shall be introduced in the Do
minion Parliament providing for total pro-
hibition.
A hurricane on the coast of Western
Australia destroyed 400 boats belonging
to the pearl fishery fleet and $50 persons
persisted.
A disease locally known as the black
fever, accompanied by diphtheria,i ravag-
ing the vicinity of Mount Carbon. Province
of Quebec.
Six men were killed and eighteen
were injured in collision on the Cascade
branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad
near Chelum.
The Cleveland, Ohio, police believe
they have captured the murderer of Maggie
Mccarthy. The circumstantal evidence
against him is strong.
The eviction of settlers on the Win
nebago and Crow Creek reservations has
begun. The troops will remain three weeks
after their work is ended.
1t is reported from the City of Mexi-
co that party of Americans have re-dis-
covered the lost silver mines in Sonora
whose location was lost in 1856.
Some turbulent Kiowa Indians sought
to make trouble in the Indian Territory and
troops were summoned to quiet them which
they did by arresting number.
The English Foreign Office has adj
vices saving that the German Government
does not think that the Schnaebele's affair
will lead to a prolonged difficulty.
1t is understood that Germany will
Cob tn ,,,;< he
proviso that he be kept away from the from
tier, where he was making trouble.
DR.. Parkers London friends fear
that Brooklyn will be too warm for him in
June and they have induced him to post
pone the Beecher eulogy until October.
A special train on the Rock Island
road, containing the Kansas railway asses
sors and railway officials, was ditched near
Horton, Kansas, and the party was badly
bruised.
Fourteen freight cars broke loose
from the engine in Beaver Canon, on the
Utah Northern Road, ran three miles down
the grade, jumped the track, and killed the
conductor.
The California Central Railroad
Company has been formed by the CONSOLE
dation of the Santa Fe's eight branches in
that State and full board of officers have
been elected.
The English customs officials are
looking for explosives in all directions, be-
cause it is rumored that shipments have
been made from San Francisco to reach En-
gland via China.
Secretary Bayard has interested him.
self in movement being made by Ameri-
cans to secure the erection of monument
to st. Paul at his birthplace. the City of
Tarsus in Cilicia.
DIR. w. T. Northrup of Scioto coun-
ty. Ohio. an active champion of local op-
ton, was waylaid and shot dead by num-
Der of saloon-men, who are under arrest and
in danger Of lynching.
Evidence accumulates that Simmons,
the lessee of the Hotel Del Monte, knows
much about the origin of the fire which
burned that house. He is q, 900 short in his
accounts and under arrest.
Katie Fisher, sixteen years old, was
found clinging to a pile underneath dock
in New York. She said she had been as
saulted and thrown into the river, but be-
ing able to swim she saved herself from
drowning.
Personalities between the editors of
two Omaha papers resulted in street en-
counter, and Editor Rothacker is under 81
900 bail to answer to the charge of assault
with intent to commit murder on Editor
Rosewater.
Mr.. Thomas j. Potter. First Vice.
Quincy Railroad has rendered his resigna-
ton to accept the Office of First Vice-Presi-
dent Of the Union Pacific Railroad, which
had been rendered him.
Mrs. Christina Openhoff visited Mrs.
en- a neighbor at Eontanet nine miles